Henry fredrick coombs



(MbdeL) H. P, OOOMBS.

BUTTER TUB. No. 289,390. Patented Dec. 4, 1883.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR,

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRICK OOOMBS, OF GHABLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA.

* BUTTER-TUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,390, dated December 4, 1883. Application filed October 5, 1882. (ModeL) I all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY FREDRIoK GooMBs, of Charlottetown, in the Province of Prince Edward Island and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Butter-Tubs, of which the following is a full, clear. and fiXilOt description.

The object'of my invention is to furnish a tub especially adapted for packing butter for shipment, which tub cannot lose its hoops by their dropping off at the bottom, and from which tub the butter may be removed in bulk at the top, as usual.

My invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in

which- Figure l is a plan View of lying on its outer face,

a stave of my tub and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of my improved tub.

A is the tub, formed of wooden staves a, and fitted Witha bottom, I), and top or cover 0, and bound with metal hoops d. The staves a are tapered lengthwise in thickness, and are placed together with their thicker ends at the bottom of the tub. The staves stand vertically-that is, so that a vertical plane would divide each stave in thickness from its top completely to its bottom end. The outer or convex face of each stave is narrower at the top or thin end, and its inner or concave face is wider at the top or thin end than at the bottom or thick end. The bottom 6 of the tub is of a less diameter than the top 0, so that the interior of the tub is of a greater diameter at the top. At the same timethe tub is of greater diameter at the bottom than at the top on the outside. The top 0 is fitted with a plug, 6, which, on being removed, allows the butter'to be inspected and sampled without removing the cover.

WVith this tub the butter can be packed with brine for foreign shipment, and the tub made water-tight, so that the brine cannot escape. The external diameter of the top being the smallest, the hoops d can be loosened and the top a removed without turning the tub over. In case it is desired to remove the butter bodily from the tub, that is allowed by the interior shape of the tub, which is of the largest diameter at the top.

This constitutes a cheap, safe, and convenient package for containing buttertobe' shipped to long distances.

It is to be understood that the staves taper in thickness only, theybeinguniform in width throughout their length.

Having thus described claim as new, Patent, is l l. Staves for a tub or other vessel, thicker at one end than at the other, narrower at the thin end than at the thick end on one face, and wider at the thin end than at the thick end on the other face, substantially as specified.

2. A stave-sided vessel smaller at the top than at the bottom outside, and larger at the top than at the bottom inside, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

HENRY FREDRIOK GOOMBS.

Witnesses: EVA L. DUcK, S. F. HODGSON. 

